"Jack Warner. While Bogart rarely performed on television, he and Bacall appeared on Edward R. Murrow's ""Person to Person"" in which they disagreed in answering every question. Bogart was also featured on ""The Jack Benny Show"". The surviving kinescope of the live telecast captures him in his only TV sketch comedy outing. Bogart and Bacall worked together on an early color telecast in 1955, an NBC adaptation of ""The Petrified Forest"" for ""Producers' Showcase"", with Bogart receiving top billing and Henry Fonda playing Leslie Howard's role; a black and white kinescope of the live telecast has also survived. Bogart performed"
"breakthrough in Bogart's career, transforming him from supporting player to leading man. The film contains extensive location shooting, especially in the climactic final scenes, as the authorities pursue Bogart's character, gangster ""Mad Dog"" Roy Earle, from Lone Pine up to the foot of the mountain. An aged gangster, Big Mac (Donald MacBride), is planning a robbery at a fashionable California resort hotel in the fictional resort town of Tropico Springs, California. He wants the experienced Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), just released from an eastern prison by a governor's pardon, to lead the heist and to take charge of the operation."
"trouble with the studios. Bogart once said: ""High Sierra"", a 1941 film directed by Raoul Walsh, had a screenplay written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston, adapted from the novel by W. R. Burnett (writer of the novel ""Little Caesar"" was based upon). Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part. The film was Bogart's last major film playing a gangster (only"
"and Mary Astor as the treacherous female foil. Bogart's sharp timing and facial expressions were praised by the cast and director as vital to the quick action and rapid-fire dialogue. The film was a huge hit in theaters and a major triumph for Huston. Bogart was unusually happy with it, remarking, ""it is practically a masterpiece. I don't have many things I'm proud of ... but that's one"". Bogart gained his first real romantic lead in 1942's ""Casablanca"", playing Rick Blaine, a hard-pressed expatriate nightclub owner hiding from a shady past while negotiating a fine line among Nazis, the French"
"knowing that he could carry any gangster picture when either Robinson or Cagney were on suspension. Raft had difficulty working with Bogart and refused to co-star with him. Eventually, Warner agreed to release Raft from his contract in 1943. After Raft had turned the role down, the studio gave Bogart the role of ""Mad Dog"" Roy Earle in the 1941 film ""High Sierra"", which helped establish him as a top star. Following ""High Sierra"" and after Raft had once again turned the part down, Bogart was given the leading role in John Huston's successful 1941 remake of the studio's 1931"
"then signed a contract with Fox Film Corporation for $750 a week. There he met Spencer Tracy, a serious Broadway actor whom Bogart liked and admired, and they became close friends and drinking companions. It was Tracy, in 1930, who first called him ""Bogie"". Tracy made his film debut in the only film in which he and Bogart appeared together, John Ford's early sound film ""Up the River"" (1930). Both had major roles as inmates. Tracy received top billing and Bogart's face was featured on the film's posters instead of Tracy's. Bogart then had a minor supporting role in ""Bad"
"among others. In ""Black Legion"" (1937), for a change, he played a good man caught up and destroyed by a racist organization, a movie Graham Greene described as ""intelligent and exciting, if rather earnest"". In 1938, Warner Bros. put Bogart in a ""hillbilly musical"" called ""Swing Your Lady"" as a wrestling promoter; he later apparently considered this his worst film performance. In 1939, Bogart played a mad scientist in ""The Return of Doctor X"", his only horror film. He cracked, ""If it'd been Jack Warner's blood ... I wouldn't have minded so much. The trouble was they were drinking mine"
"on such films as ""The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"" (1948), ""Key Largo"" (1948), ""The African Queen"" (1951), and ""Beat the Devil"" (1953). Bogart's convincing interpretation became the archetype for a private detective in the ""film noir"" genre, providing him near-instant acclaim and rounding and solidifying his onscreen persona. It was ""The Maltese Falcon"" that Ingrid Bergman watched over and over again while preparing for ""Casablanca"", in order to learn how to interact and act with Bogart. The role of the deceitful ""femme fatale"" Brigid O'Shaughnessy was originally offered to Geraldine Fitzgerald, but went to Mary Astor when Fitzgerald decided"
"The Big Shot (1942 film) The Big Shot (1942) is an American film noir crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a crime boss and Irene Manning as the woman he falls in love with. Having finally reached stardom with such projects as ""The Maltese Falcon"" (1941), this would be the last film in which former supporting player Bogart would portray a gangster for Warner Bros. (He would play a gangster one last time in his penultimate film, ""The Desperate Hours"", distributed by Paramount.) Even though ""The Big Shot"" went into production after ""Across the Pacific"", it was released nearly"
"""Dark Passage"" (1947) and ""Key Largo"" (1948). His other significant films included ""The African Queen"", ""The Caine Mutiny"", ""Sabrina"" and ""The Barefoot Contessa"". Bogart won the Academy Award for Best Actor for ""The African Queen"", and was nominated for ""Casablanca"" and ""The Caine Mutiny"". Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Belmont DeForest Bogart (1867–1934) and Maud Humphrey (1868–1940). Belmont was the only child of the unhappy marriage of Adam Watkins Bogart, a Canandaigua, New York innkeeper, and his wife, Julia, a wealthy heiress. The name ""Bogart"" derives from the Dutch surname"
"Pasadena Playhouse. Morris's film debut came in ""China Clipper"" (1936). Morris played the title character of ""Kid Galahad"" (1937), a story of a young prizefighter that featured some of Hollywood's biggest stars, Bette Davis, Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart. His career flourished in films like ""Brother Rat"", which starred Ronald Reagan, and in Bogart's only horror film, ""The Return of Doctor X"" (1939). While filming ""Flight Angels"" (1940), Morris became interested in flying and became a pilot. With war in the wind, he joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy flier in 1942, leaving his film career behind"
"three Academy Awards. After his death, a ""Bogie Cult"" formed at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, and in France, which contributed to his spike in popularity in the late 1950s and 1960s. In 1997, ""Entertainment Weekly"" magazine named Bogart the number one movie legend of all time. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the greatest male screen legend. Jean-Luc Godard's ""Breathless"" (1960) was the first film to pay tribute to Bogart. Later, in Woody Allen's comic paean to Bogart, ""Play It Again, Sam"" (1972), Bogart's ghost comes to the"
"Enemy #1"" by J. Edgar Hoover, and in 1934 was ambushed and gunned down in spectacular fashion by FBI agents. Bogart, who won the stage role in part because of his physical resemblance to Dillinger, studied film footage of the gangster and mimicked some of his mannerisms in his portrayal. For the film, Warner Brothers intended to cast the more bankable Edward G. Robinson as Duke; but Howard, whose contract gave him final script control, informed the studio that he would not appear in the movie version without Bogart as his co-star. The film made Bogart a star, and he"
"received a tepid twenty-six-week contract at $550 per week and was typecast as a gangster in a series of ""B movie"" crime dramas. Bogart was proud of his success, but the fact that it came from playing a gangster weighed on him. He once said: ""I can't get in a mild discussion without turning it into an argument. There must be something in my tone of voice, or this arrogant face—something that antagonizes everybody. Nobody likes me on sight. I suppose that's why I'm cast as the heavy."" His roles were not only repetitive, but physically demanding and draining (studios"
"good enough for the 25-cent customers."" Critic Bosley Crowther liked the acting in the picture and wrote, ""As gangster pictures go, this one has everything—speed, excitement, suspense and that ennobling suggestion of futility which makes for irony and pity. Mr. Bogart plays the leading role with a perfection of hard-boiled vitality, and Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy, Alan Curtis and a newcomer named Joan Leslie handle lesser roles effectively. Especially, is Miss Lupino impressive as the adoring moll. As gangster pictures go—if they do—it's a perfect epilogue. Count on the old guard and Warners: they die but never surrender."" ""Time"" magazine"
"to his becoming a major star. Warners did not give the film any special treatment, promoting it and Bogart in their standard fashion. Bogart's breakthrough would come in ""High Sierra"" in 1941. When passed over for promotion at work in favor of a foreign-born friend, Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), a midwestern factory worker, joins the anti-immigrant Black Legion, a secret white vigilante organization portrayed as related to the Ku Klux Klan. Dressed in black robes and hoods, Taylor and the Legion mount a torchlight raid and burn down the friend's chicken farm, driving him out of town, so that Taylor"
"and criminals, malice from guardians and protectors. Above all his characters are human and this could be their undoing. In ""High Sierra"" (1941), Humphrey Bogart plays Roy Earle, a hard-bitten criminal who rejects his life of crime to help a crippled girl. In ""The Asphalt Jungle"" (1949), the most perfectly masterminded plot falls apart as each character reveals a weakness. In ""The Beast of the City"" (1932), the police take the law into their own hands when the criminals walk free due to legal incompetence, foreshadowing ""Dirty Harry"" by almost 40 years. Burnett worked with many of the greats in"
"Bogart's protagonist, with the camera seeing what his character sees. After his plastic surgery, the rest of the film is shot in the usual manner. Bogart is intent on finding the real murderer in a crime for which he was blamed and sentenced to prison. The couple next starred in the future classic, ""Key Largo"" (1948). Directed by John Huston, the film highlighted Edward G. Robinson as gangster ""Johnny Rocco,"" a seething older synthesis of many of his vicious early bad guy roles. The characters are trapped during a spectacular hurricane in a hotel owned by Bacall's screen father-in-law, played"
"three months earlier. Considered one of Bogart's lesser-known works, contemporary reviews of ""The Big Shot"" describe it as an unexceptional throwback to his earlier gangster films, most likely trying to take advantage of the success of 1941's crime drama, ""High Sierra"". It was released on DVD for the first time by Warner Archive early in 2015. The Big Shot (1942 film) The Big Shot (1942) is an American film noir crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a crime boss and Irene Manning as the woman he falls in love with. Having finally reached stardom with such projects as ""The"
"of Bogart (Jerry Lacy) giving advice on how to treat women. Set in San Francisco, the film begins with the closing scenes of ""Casablanca"", with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. We then see that the main character, Allan Felix, is watching the film in a cinema, mouth agape. He leaves the cinema regretting that he will never be like Rick. Apart from apparitions of Bogart he also has frequent flashbacks of conversations with his ex-wife, who constantly mocked his sexual inadequacy. Allan Felix has just been through a messy divorce. His best friend, Dick Christie, and Dick's wife, Linda, try"
"Paul Bogart Paul Bogart (November 21, 1919 – April 15, 2012) was an American television and film director and producer. Bogart directed episodes of the television series ""Coronet Blue"" in 1967, ""Get Smart"", ""The Dumplings"" in 1976, and ""All In The Family"" from 1976 to 1979. Among his films are ""Oh, God! You Devil"", ""Torch Song Trilogy"", ""Marlowe"", ""Halls of Anger"", ""Skin Game"" (both starring James Garner), and ""Class of '44"". He won five Emmy Awards during his long career. In 1991, he was awarded the ""French Festival Internationelle Programmes Audiovisuelle"" at the Cannes Film Festival. Bogart's children are daughter"
"Warner Bros. wanted to cast the then much better known Edward G. Robinson for the film adaptation; however Leslie Howard, who played the protagonist in both the play and the film, insisted on Bogart being given the part. His breakthrough came in 1941 when his performances in ""High Sierra"" and ""The Maltese Falcon"" made him a star. His first true romantic lead role came in 1942's ""Casablanca"", breaking his typecasting as a gangster. He and Lauren Bacall starred together in ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944). After they married, she also played his love interest in ""The Big Sleep"" (1946),"
"reviewed the film when released as having ""less of realistic savagery than of the quaint, nostalgic atmosphere of costume drama."" The reviewer noted, ""What makes ""High Sierra"" something more than a Grade B melodrama is its sensitive delineation of Gangster Earle's character. Superbly played by Actor Bogart, Earle is a complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him ""Mad-Dog"" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his"
"in ""Watch on the Rhine"". The film vaulted Bogart from fourth place to first in the studio's roster, finally overtaking James Cagney. By 1946 he'd more than doubled his annual salary to over $460,000, making him the highest-paid actor in the world. Between 1943 and 1944, Bogart went on the United Service Organizations and War Bond tours accompanied by Methot, enduring arduous travels to Italy and North Africa, including Casablanca. Bogart met Lauren Bacall while filming ""To Have and Have Not"" (1944), a loose adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. The movie has many similarities with ""Casablanca""—the same enemies, the"
"Bogart. Based on the closing of the ""New York World"", the film was part gangster picture, part newspaper drama. At its core was an issue Brooks cared about: the consolidation of the newspaper industry and its effect on the diversity of voices in the press. The film remains one of the more highly regarded dramas about American newspapers. Brooks directed four more films before achieving an unqualified hit with ""Blackboard Jungle"" (1955) starring Glenn Ford. Based on a best-seller by Evan Hunter, the film was shocking for its time in its presentation of juvenile delinquency. It also offered a career-making"
"own company had left Jack Warner furious, and afraid other stars would do the same and further erode the major studios' power. In addition to the pressure they were bearing from freelancing actors like Bogart, James Stewart, Henry Fonda and others, they were beginning to buckle from the eroding impact of television and enforcement of anti-trust laws breaking up theater chains. Bogart performed in his final films for Warners, ""Chain Lightning"" (1950) and ""The Enforcer"" (1951). The company released its films through Columbia Pictures. Without letting up, Bogart starred in ""Knock on Any Door"" (1949), ""Tokyo Joe"" (1949), ""In a"
"Keith Bogart Keith Bogart is an actor who has starred in film, television and theatre. He is best known for his role in the horror film """". He also starred in the 1999 movie ""The Secret Life of Girls"". Bogart made his directorial debut in 2007 with ""The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed into Heaven"", which he also produced. Written by Don DeLillo and starring John Larroquette and Tyler Hoechlin. The film appeared at the 2007 South by Southwest film festival. Bogart starred as Drew Buchanan on the soap opera ""One Life to Live"" from 1988-1989. He appeared at the"
"Columbia for ""The Whole Town's Talking"" (1935), a comedy directed by John Ford. Sam Goldwyn borrowed him for ""Barbary Coast"" (1935), again directed by Hawks. Back at Warners he did ""Bullets or Ballots"" (1936) then he went to Britain for ""Thunder in the City"" (1937). He made ""Kid Galahad"" (1937) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. MGM borrowed him for ""The Last Gangster"" (1937) then he did a comedy ""A Slight Case of Murder"" (1938). Again with Bogart in a supporting role, he was in ""The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse"" (1938) then he was borrowed by Columbia for ""I Am the"
"film ""I, the Jury"" (1982) or as Mafia gangsters such as Michael Moretti in ""Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels"". In 1990 his role as Roberto Texador in Sidney Lumet's film ""Q&A"" garnered him a Golden Globe nomination, and the following year he portrayed the notorious Bugsy Siegel in Neil Simon's ""The Marrying Man"" (1991). The following year he was seen as mafia boss Carol D'Allesandro in ""Hoffa"" (1992) starring Jack Nicholson, and crime kingpin John Gotti in the 1996 made-for-television biopic ""Gotti"", for which he won his Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie."
"sells Humphrey Bogart a winning lottery ticket and gets a glass of water thrown in his face by Bogart in the process. In 1950, at age 17, Blake appeared as Mahmoud in ""The Black Rose"" and as Enrico, Naples Bus Boy (uncredited) in ""Black Hand"". In 1950, Blake was drafted into the Army. After returning to Southern California, he entered Jeff Corey's acting class and began working on improving his personal and professional life. He eventually became a seasoned Hollywood actor, playing notable dramatic roles in movies and on television. In 1956, he was billed as Robert Blake for the"
"film apparently rekindled Bogart's early love of boats. On his return to California he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout, which he kept until his death. The role of cantankerous skipper Charlie Allnutt won Bogart his only Academy Award in three nominations, for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1951. Bogart considered his performance to be the best of his film career. He had vowed to friends that if he won, his speech would break the convention of thanking everyone in sight. He advised Claire Trevor, when she had been nominated for ""Key Largo"", to ""just say you did"
"of the film in which Bogart is trapped in a house at gun-point. Vincent Sherman finished directing the film, minus the script which Huston took with him, explaining ""Bogie will know how to get out"". An implausible escape and plot wrap-up was shot, which Huston declared ""lacked credibility"". In late 1941, Captain Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) is court-martialed and discharged from the U.S. Coast Artillery after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Canadian Army, but is coldly rebuffed. He subsequently boards a Japanese ship, the ""Genoa Maru"", in Halifax, apparently to make his way to China via"
"married Mary Philips, whom he'd met when they appeared in the play ""Nerves"" during its very brief run at the Comedy Theatre in September 1924, at her mother's apartment in Hartford, Connecticut. After the stock market crash of 1929, stage production dropped off sharply, and many of the more photogenic actors headed for Hollywood. Bogart's film debut was with Helen Hayes in the 1928 two-reeler ""The Dancing Town"", of which a complete copy has never been found. He also appeared with Joan Blondell and Ruth Etting in a Vitaphone short, ""Broadway's Like That"" (1930) which was re-discovered in 1963. Bogart"